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Theme of the week: integration of sharing transport with urban and private
In the business models of transport sharing, there are functions that help services to fit more harmoniously into the routes of citizens. Car sharing competes less with the public fleet, offering an alternative rather than replacing buses. Sharing models also find common interests with the owners of private cars: in the form of compensation to the owner of part of the costs associated with the operation of the car.
The idea of the “last mile” is not new for carsharing – you can get from the metro or railway station to your home by rental car, bicycle or scooter in many metropolitan areas. This is exactly how QIQ Global positions its service on the eve of the launch in Singapore, where it will be possible to get from the subway to the house by a two-seater electric car (width 1 m, length 2,4 m). QIQ Global plans to place 300-600 of these shared microcars in the parking lots of transport hubs in 2021. The company plans for the electric car to autonomously return from the user’s destination to the base parking lot, where it can be rented by the next driver exiting the subway.
British travel companion service SKOOT hopes to solve the problem of crowded public transport in the era of COVID-19 while promoting environmental friendliness. The project is only a year old, but it managed to attract about $2 million in investments. To make the idea of a joint trip an attractive alternative to buses and private transport, the company is trying to simplify the financial relationship between the driver and the passenger. The SKOOT mobile app automatically calculates the cost of gas and car depreciation to share these costs among fellow travelers. In addition, the startup has committed to planting a tree every three trips. SKOOT plans to scale the business across Europe, launching the service in North America, Canada and Australia.
Taxi customers now have a choice – Citymobil has added points with Urent electric scooters to its map. You can rent them through the application of the taxi aggregator in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar. In connection with the launch of the new functionality, Vitaly Bedarev, Executive Director of Citymobil, emphasized that the company is developing as a comprehensive solution for urban mobility.
The Yandex.Drive application now sends warnings to users about exceeding the speed limit by 10 km/h. It will not be fined or blocked. Thus, the service wants to help drivers behave more responsibly and accurately on the roads. So far, the warning function is being tested in Moscow. The Thrushering portal writes that Yandex.Drive considers most violations of the speed limit to be unintentional. According to car sharing, 95% of drivers stop speeding after notifications.
Quote of the week
Part of Moscow parking lots, where places are occupied mainly by local residents (more than 80%), can be excluded from the “preferential” subscription for car sharing operators, and it will be possible to leave a rental car there only at the rate that is valid for everyone. For users of the service, such parking will remain free. Local residents retain the usual benefits for private cars.
Maxim Liksutov, Head of Moscow Department of Transport
Week numbers
Uber results in Q2020 XNUMX:
- Revenue from the taxi service fell four times, and from the delivery of food has doubled.
- For the first time, Uber’s courier service surpassed the company’s auto business in terms of turnover – more than twice.
Source: Uber Investor
Study of the week
Cushman & Wakefield analysts assessed the prospects and main trends of the coworking market in Moscow in 2020:
- the volume of supply will grow by 55-60% to 290 thousand sq. m. m;
- 23 new co-working spaces to open by the end of the year;
- flex-offices are starting to actively compete with classic rentals;
- the main market share of flexible workspaces was occupied by network operators: WeWork, Space 1, SOK, Business Club, CEO SPACES.
Source: Cushman & Wakefield
One line
- On August 9, International Coworking Day, the flexible office space industry celebrated its 15th anniversary.
- A judge in California found Uber and Lyft drivers to be employees, not partners of the companies.
- Morgan Stanley and Goldman will help Airbnb go public before the end of 2020.
- Levi’s has created a special collection of the legendary Levi’s 501 jeans for the rental service.
- The operator of the shopping center “AFIMALL City” held the first festival of conscious consumption smart market.
What to listen
- Uliana Smolskaya, head of the press service of Delimobil, explained on the air of Moscow FM what the cancellation of benefits for carsharing cars will result in.
- In the latest edition of the Gigging: Everything & Sharing Economy podcast, Johnny Cohen and Hamed Yadzi, founders of Rideshare Mechanic, talk about how they came up with their business and how the pandemic has affected users of the service. The Rideshare Mechanic app acts as a remote “inspector” for cars whose owners want to become Uber and Lyft drivers.